I was doing a year of voluntary service abroad for people with learning disabilities. It was set in an English 36 , quite different from my home in Sweden.
One of my fellow 37 , a girl from Tanzania, seemed a bit 38 , so I asked what the problem was. She told me she had a 39 back home who was really 40 with her university studies. It seemed that 41 difficulties would make it impossible for her to complete her course. So this friend of 42 had done something unbelievable: she had sent all her pocket money for the month to Tanzania to 43 her friend! This meant that she didn't have much food to eat and had no money to go anywhere outside the village.
I was so 44 that she did this for her friend and I felt I had to do something. 45 , during my next trip to one of the ear by towns I walked into a shop to buy some food for her. I started 46 to the woman working in the shop and 47 told her about my friend. The woman looked at me, 48 .“Does she eat pasta(意大利面)?”she asked.“Yes,”I replied. She immediately 49 loading a bag with pasta, cookies, sweets and other things until the bag was full.“Give this to her for me. It's my 50 !”I couldn't believe it but cried with 51 .
Imagine my friend's face when I 52 the gifts on my kitchen table and 53 her from her room to see! I have 54 seen her so happy! She told me that due to the generous help, she could definitely 55 the month.
36. A. university B. village C. town D. city
37. A. teachers B. students C. volunteers D. workers
38. A. excited B. angry C. desperate D. disappointed
39. A. sister B. cousin C. relative D. friend
40. A. dealing B. helping C. struggling D. improving
41. A. terminal B. cultural C. casual D. financial
42. A. mine B. hers C. ours D. theirs
43. A. connect B. support C. adore D. inform
44. A. curious B. generous C. influenced D. touched
45. A. So B. Instead C. However D. Otherwise
46. A. talking B. calling C. showing D. walking
47. A. thankfully B. constantly C. generously D. eventually
48. A. annoyed B. amazed C. confused D. embarrassed
49. A. started B. continued C. allowed D. stopped
50. A. duty B. offer C. treat D. turn
51. A. regret B. sorrow C. fortune D. happiness
52. A. ate B. arranged C. consumed D. finished
53. A. fetched B. removed C. wished D. ordered
54. A. always B. recently C. never D. frequently
55. A. go over B. get through C. make up D. turn around
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It was a bright Saturday morning in the late fall. I had stopped at a café to enjoy a cup of coffee and__1__ the morning newspaper. Suddenly, I__2__ a hand on the back of my jacket and heard someone say, “Hey Steve! How ya doin’?”
__3__ up, I saw a boy wearing a mechanic’s uniform worn by employees of the gasoline station next to the café. He looked__4__, but, at first, I was unable to__5__ where we had met.
He also held a cup of coffee, so I asked him to join me. Very soon, his__6__ and probably my coffee began to thaw(解凍) out my__7__.
Five years earlier, he had been traveling home late on a February night. A fierce__8___ had arrived that afternoon, and by midnight, the snowdrifts were getting__9___. He recalled__10__ a drift just down the road from my house.
He had walked to my house for__11__. I had taken my pickup and a tow-rope and__12__ his car out of the snowdrift and up to the highway where maintenance(維護(hù)) trucks had__13___ away the snow.
This has been a__14__ occurrence here during the winter. I cannot__15__ the times someone has also pulled my car from a snowdrift.
___16__, it was an unforgettable experience for him, and his memory of our unexpected meeting in a snowstorm__17__ my entire day.
Leo Buscaglia wrote, “Too often we underestimate(低估) the__18_ of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment(贊揚), or the smallest act of__19__, all of which have the potential to turn a__20__ around.”
1. A. preview B. scan C. order D. buy
2. A. noticed B. got C. caught D. felt
3. A. Looking B. Standing C. Rising D. Glaring
4. A. sensitive B. friendly C. familiar D. grateful
5. A. reflect B. determine C. regain D. recall
6. A. story B. experience C. appearance D. greetings
7. A. heart B. feeling C. memory D. wonder
8. A. sandstorm B. snowstorm C. hurricane D. rainfall
9. A. high B. slippery C. thin D. deep
10. A. blocking B. hitting C. knocking D. crashing
11. A. help B. advice C. emergency D. shelter
12. A. pulled B. dragged C. pushed D. dug
13. A. collected B. cleared C. threw D. melted
14. A. basic B. common C. forgettable D. practical
15. A. count B. keep C. master D. predict
16. A. Besides B. Therefore C. However D. Otherwise
17. A. covered B. influenced C. brightened D. filled
18. A. meaning B. relation C. value D. power
19. A. caring B. offering C. sharing D. forgiving
20. A. course B. fate C. truth D. life
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